Playing with fire for I Might Make That! Monday

Liquid Enamel by Mary Hettmansperger

Here's a cool tute from Lark Crafts for making this necklace, called Liquid Enamel, which is featured in the new book Heat, Color Set & Fire: Surface Effects for Metal Jewelry by Mary Hettmansperger. (Click the link for a downloadable PDF.)

It involves liquid enamel and a blowtorch--cool! I've played with enameling at a summer family camp we used to go to that had a crafts studio, but it was the powdered kind that got baked in a kiln.

I have to confess that I don't like the particular necklace above that much, it's the technique that interests me--which is why I've included it here. I do like the two projects shown on the book's cover, though:

So do you play with fire?



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